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CBS, Time Warner Name Ex-Disney Executive to Head CW

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Sam Schechner

Updated April 28, 2011 4:38 p.m. ET

CBS Corp. and Time Warner Inc. on Thursday named former Walt Disney Co. executive Mark Pedowitz to run their CW broadcast network, a move that cleaves together the channel's split management as its longtime creative chief departs.

Mr. Pedowitz, who ran Disney's in-house TV studio for nearly five years, will oversee both the business and entertainment sides of the youth-oriented channel. The CW was created in 2006 by merging two ailing networks: Warner Bros.'s WB and CBS's UPN.